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. 2019 Jun 27;9:9309. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-45797-6

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Spheroid size, proliferation, viability and cell cycle analysis after nanoparticles exposure (5 and 100 µg/ml of TiO2 NPs for 72 hours): (A) Spheroid diameter and volume of 10,000 cells spheroids upon NPs exposure was calculated based on phase contrast image analysis by area determination using image J software. Data are shown as mean ± SD of three independent experiments (n = 10). (B) spheroid proliferation during formation and NPs exposure. (C) Annexin V/PI assay captures the different cell death profiles in the spheroids exposed to different concentrations of TiO2 NPs. (D) cell cycle analysis showing percentages of Go-G1 phase, S and G2/M phase of spheroids exposed to NPs. Bar represents the mean ± SD performed with 4 spheroids in each condition and the analyses were performed in triplicate. * and **P < 0.05 vs control.